NATURE IS THE DEVIL. 1987.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12.1 x 13.2cm, 1pp. Artist’s card where Finlay uses a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Nature is the devil in a fancy waistcoat” to create a new aphorism “Nature is a storm trooper in a camouflage smock”. Finlay’s fascination with warfare in Arcadia is to the fore here again – and the Romantic view of nature of wild and dangerous is reinforced by the idea of the fast moving and effective German soldiers typifying that aggression. VG+.